Past Lives is a drama about an old man suffering from kidney failure. He's gone to the countryside to die, surrounded by his loved ones. The film looks to bear many of the hallmarks of Apichatpong's past work. It was shot on 16mm, like his first feature, Mysterious Object at Noon, and has a mystical and spooky quality, like, well, like all of his films, as it heads into the jungle like Blissfully Yours (his first Cannes entry, winner of 2002's Un Certain Regard) and Tropical Malady (the jury prize winner in 2004's Palme d'Or competetion). But it's also different from his others, Apichatpong says, as it takes on a narrative form.

Now there's an official trailer, and you can see a bit of what he's talking about. It's posted on YouTube by Houdini Studio - the shingle of editor Lee Chatametikool. I've embedded the video below. Watch it and the woods may never look the same to you again.

Here's someone who seems to have come suddenly out of nowhere, and finally, he's the filmmaker we've been waiting for," says May Adadol Ingawanij, a lecturer on Thai film at the University of Westminster in London.

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